Film & DVD Reviews

Invictus

Invictus

Clint Eastwood restages Nelson Mandela's role in South Africa's Rugby World Cup triumph

It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud

Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge on the magical powers of the guitar

Oil City Confidential

Oil City Confidential

Engaging portrait of Canvey Island R&B tearaways

44 Inch Chest

44 Inch Chest

Language of revenge explored by Sexy Beast writers

No Distance Left To Run

No Distance Left To Run

Solid documentary of Blur’s history – in their own words

Up In The Air

Up In The Air

George Clooney excels in darkly funny romcom

The Road

The Road

Impeccably gauged adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning novel

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Like its subject – Ian Dury – this is a rock biopic you will like

Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

John Winston Lennon; the formative years

Humpday

Humpday

Low budget US indie, funny and charming with Joshua Leonard

Where The Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 kids fantasy

The Limits Of Control

The Limits Of Control

Jim Jarmusch's understated latest with Tilda Swinton

Me And Orson Welles

Me And Orson Welles

Linklater's superb comic drama centres on Welles’ world in the 30s

Outnumbered - Series 1 And 2

Outnumbered - Series 1 And 2

Drop The Dead Donkey creators put the spotlight on the family

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

Palme D’Or winning, brooding arthouse epic. Discomfiting but compelling

We Live In Public

We Live In Public

DiG! director Ondi Timoner makes another doc about obsession

The Informant!

The Informant!

Steven Soderbergh's corporate whistleblower oddity, based on true story

A Serious Man

A Serious Man

Coen brothers' latest curveball: Jewishness, suburbia and quantum mechanics

The Men Who Stare At Goats

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Psychic warfare study misses its target; George Clooney, Ewan MCGregor star

Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee's deceptively subversive look at the great festival of '69

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Editor's Letter

Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...